Holy Scripture

Job 20:5

A church father on this verse
“In this passage Zophar speaks impudently and seriously insults Job. By scorning him, as the other two friends had already done, Zophar also defamed him for the following reason. After the beginning, after human beings came into existence, they felt "joy" and happiness in the fall "of the impious" and the "destruction…”
Hesychius of Jerusalem, 5th c. — HOMILIES ON JOB 24.20.5

Source: Septuagint

Original

5But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, And the joy of transgressors is destruction:

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3I will hear my shameful reproach; And the spirit of my understanding answers me.

4Hast thou not known these things of old, From the time that man was set upon the earth?

— Job 20:5 —

6Although his gifts should go up to heaven, And his sacrifice reach the clouds.

7For when he shall seem to be now established, Then he shall utterly perish: And they that knew him shall say, Where is he?

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